• CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 month ago

      Reminds me of Pierce Hawthorne’s dad in Community, he said something like “Swedish dogs, you’re tainted by race mixing with Laplanders. You’re practically Finnish!” Which meant absolutely nothing to me at the time the episode aired but now I realize is a callback to Ben Franklin era racism

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        also “leslie” i can "excuse racism, but i draw the line on animal cruelty(place holder for conservatives for whatever is political convenient for them)

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        I’ve recently read a book by Maciej Górny, where he in particular described how pre-WWI European scientists strived to prove that everyone to their east and south are Mongols actually. British called French Mongols, French called Germans Mongols, Germans and Swedes called Poles and Finns Mongols, Poles and Finns called Russians Mongols and Russians had to alternate between calling Mongols Mongols and saying “we are Mongols and it is based actually”.